School material

Day 1 - Tuesday 06/02

Welcome

Git Basics

Teachers: U. Pattacini

• Crash course
• assignment_git

YARP

Teachers: L. Natale; TA: N. Genesio, B. Magyar

• Introduction to software middleware
• The YARP middleware
• tutorial_yarpmanager
• tutorial_yarp-ports
• tutorial_yarp-producer-consumer
• tutorial_yarp-rpc

Day 2 - Wednesday 07/02

YARP

Teachers: L. Natale; TA: N. Genesio, B. Magyar

• Slides joint level motor control
• tutorial_RFModule-simple
• tutorial_joint-interface
• assignment_motor-control ☠️

ROS

Teachers: B. Magyar; TA: N. Genesio

• Slides for the Robot Operating System
• tutorial_ros

Evening talk

• "Sustainable Human-Centered Robots" by Luis Sentis.

Day 3 - Thursday 08/02

Robot Kinematics

Teachers: U. Pattacini; TA: N. Genesio, B. Magyar

• Introduction to Robot Kinematics
• tutorial_inverse-kinematics
• assignment_inverse-kinematics 🔨
• tutorial_cartesian-interface
• tutorial_gaze-interface
• assignment_make-it-roll 🔨

Day 4 - Friday 09/02

Robot Vision

Teachers: A. Bernardino, V. Tikhanoff; TA: V. Vasco, B. Magyar, C. Fantacci

• Basics of Computer Vision part 1
• Basics of Computer Vision part 2
• Robot Vision Slides
• tutorial_find-wally
• tutorial_yarp-opencv
• assignment_closest-blob 🔨

Evening talk

• "Humanoids capable of merging: a fundamental cognitive mechanism for meaning creation in the motoric, perceptual and language space" by Katerina Pastra.

Day 5 - Saturday 10/02

Robot Dynamics

Teachers: D. Pucci; TA: S. Traversaro, D. Ferigo

• From Point Mass to Floating Base Dynamics
• Crash Course on Nonlinear Control for Robotics
• YARP Motor Control for Dynamics
• iDynTree
• tutorial_impedance
• assignment_computed-torque 🔨
• WB-Toolbox
• tutorial_impedance-simulink
• assignment_computed-torque-simulink 🔨

Evening talk

• "Data Driven Robotics and Reinforcement Learning at DeepMind" by Francesco Nori.

Day 6 - Sunday 11/02

Free Day 🆓🆒 ✨🍷🌅

Day 7 - Monday 12/02

Event Based Vision

Teachers: C. Bartolozzi, A. Glover; TA: V. Vasco, C. Fantacci

Evening talk

• "3D object modelling, recognition and tracking with an application to action learning" by Michael Zillich.

Day 8 - Tuesday 13/02

Machine Learning & Deep Learning

Teachers: F. Anselmi; TA: G. Pasquale, E. Maiettini

Day 9 - Wednesday 14/02

Group Work

TA: S. Traversaro, D. Ferigo, G. Pasquale

Evening talk

• "Bridging the Chasm - how to do your innovation more efficiently than I did" by Rich Walker.

Day 10 - Thursday 15/02

Group Work

TA: S. Traversaro, D. Ferigo, G. Pasquale